Five Bits of Happiness on Friday

What five things are making you happy on this fine Friday?  My top 5 are:

1 - This boy's laugh...

2- This boy's silly faces....

3 - My new camera lens that came yesterday and getting to play with it this weekend...

4 - And this cutie bag that came last night to put it in from Jo Totes

5 - Fall is sort of here (okay it is still around 100 degrees in Arizona), but the return of cool mornings and evenings, gives me hope.  And the fact that I can now find all these goodies in the store.  Now that is just bliss... 

And a bonus bit of happiness, having a phone in my camera so I can take these pictures when running errands and a hobby that gives me a way to remember something I look forward to every year.

If you haven't entered my giveaway for a Studio Calico $25 gift card yet, see yesterday's post.

TGIF Friday

Me on Easter in the mid-70's. Maybe about 6?

I stayed up way to late last night trying to finish up slicing and re-touching the scans of my childhood and heritage photos. I had somewhere around 160+ scans that averaged 4-5 pictures per scan.  It has been a huge project, but as I saw that number dwindling down to 15 scans last night I had to crank it out.

My next task will be to try to approximate dates and tag people in the photos. I also need to look into a noise reduction plug-in for PSE. There are some photo's that need some more cleaning up beyond what I am comfortable doing manually.

I still have a lot a work ahead of me, but I have several stories I want to tell.  I it has been so rewarding to see pictures of my brother and me growing up, some I remembered, some I had never seen.  And to find so many hidden treasures of my parents and grandparents in all those photos was incredible.

Of course to be punished for staying up late, Nicholas woke up in the middle of the night, and ended up in our bed again. At least it is Friday.

On the list for this weekend....

• Order Studio Calico goodies for September (woohoo!)
• Finish fall arrangements to get them off the dining room table
• Go to the mall to get the boys some fall/winter clothes before my coupon's expire
• Lunch out with the family
• Scrap, scrap and more scrap (I hope this one isn't wishful thinking)

And here are a couple of layouts to share.  I am finished up through June my Month in Review (Project 12) layouts.

May 2010

May Side 1

May Side 2

June 2010

June 2010 Side 1

June 2010 Side 2

June 2010 Close Up (I love this fun Cosmo Cricket Chipboard)

I love my punches and Studio Calico month stamps for this project.  The photos and journaling are taking up so much of the layout space, just a few paper strips and accents are all I am doing on these pages to keep them similar throughout the year. Now to work on gathering July pictures.

Finally Friday

I've had a really long week. Here is my weekend Top Ten:

1. A 4 day weekend
2. Celebrating 14 years with my sweetie
3. Quiet mornings with a cup of coffee and no one awake
4. Lazy afternoons to play with my boys
5. Late nights to scrap with my new Studio Calico and Mosh Posh kits
6. Me time at the spa for a relaxing massage and facial
7. A family day out for lunch and a trip to the aquarium
8. Cooking some comfort food including my "almost" fried chicken and mashed potatoes
9. Sneak peek night at Studio Calico
10. A nap, or three

Here's to hoping I get out of work at a halfway decent hour tonight!

And another layout made with the July Studio Calico kit.

Hope you have a great weekend, I know I will. Happy Friday!

Can't wait for the weekend....and weekend plans

After being gone last weekend, I can't wait to be home this weekend and get some relaxation and scrap time.  This morning I had to whip up a birthday card for a friend, the leftover scraps from the May Mosh-Posh kit were perfect:

This weekend I'm looking forward to:

Starting Camp Scrap at Big Picture Scrapbooking and digging into that this weekend.  

Ordering my Studio Calico July kit add-on's (OMG the add on's this month are unbelievable)

Dinner to celebrate the Arizona dad's on Sunday night.

My light potato salad for said dinner.

A quiet Saturday morning before the kiddos wake up drinking coffee from the new Kreuig coffee maker

Hoping the Kindle I ordered today (at the new lower price) gets here this weekend so I can get it set up for some books I want to read.

Working on my 1st challenge for ScrapTiffany that will debut the first week of July.

Happy Friday!

Ohhh the possibilities....

I am on vacation today and Mike (being the awesome husband he is) is giving me a scrap day. Today is his day to go to the grocery store and Costco so I have the house to myself for a few hours and I am about ready to get to work.....back later with whatever I come up with.